DITA TC meeting minutes - 6 April 2010

DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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The DITA Technical Committee met on 6 April 2010 at 08:00am PT for 57 
minutes.

Chaired by Don Day <>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <>


Roll call

> Quorum was achieved.


Approve minutes from previous business meeting: 
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201003/msg00089.html (29 March 2010 meeting, Doherty)
  * question about dates, Grosso
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201003/msg00090.html
  * correction to minutes about schedule, Eberlein
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201004/msg00002.html
> Paul had 2 amendments:
> * 1) Dates, which Kristen updated via email.
> * 2) Issue regarding Don's action item to check with Mary about corrigenda.
> Minutes approved as amended in Paul's email. Paul Seconded. Approved by 
> acclamation.


BUSINESS

1. ITEM: Status of review #3 comments 
   * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TechReview3#Reviewstatus.3AAuthor.27sprogress
   * Still open; date to close?
> Eliot will work with Eric Sirois to close the XSD item EOB tomorrow.
> Eliot: In rework in file naming conventions, current file talks about CSS and
> XSL file naming, but I could not remember where we said that should go. 
> MP: I think we said Appendix.
> Eliot: The change I made was adding a topic to the introduction file
> naming conventions for all content, and left the file naming conventions for
> the DTD and schema in the introduction to configuration and specialization
> section. 
> MP: We agreed to include them in both places. 
> Eliot agreed to do this.
> JH: Robert and I finalized the task topic over the weekend.

2. ITEM: Closure on overlapping/redundant content issue 
>  Covered earlier in this meeting (see item 1 above)

3. ITEM: Status of open topics: 
   a. Acknowledgments topic (Don)
> Don: in progress, will be put in subversion later today.
   b. "Map-to-map" cascading (Anderson)
> Robert checked in updates yesterday and it's ready for draft 4.
> CLOSED.

4. ITEM: Check on schedule: 
   * 5 April 2010 -- Writers complete addressing all review #3 comments.
> KE: We're closing our last topics today/tomorrow, so let's go ahead and build
> our next review.
> Asked Stan to help building the Wiki review pages for review 4.
> Robert created some XSL scripts that generate review Wiki pages from the 
> Eclipse output. Stan and Kris to try it out.
> NOTE TO ALL AUTHORS: Any changes to files must be made by EOB today; add 
> <draft-comments> for anything to be addressed after we go to review #4. No 
> comments should be added to the 3rd review pages at this time -- instead wait
> for the 4th review Wiki pages and add them there.
   * 12-30 April 2010 -- Fourth internal review.
> KE: On track to launch review no later than 12 April.

5. ITEM: Disposition of comment from Jarno Elovirta 
   * DITA 1.2 attribute domain naming conventions 
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/201002/msg00000.html 
> Robert: Jarno pointed out 2 places in the spec that seem to contradict. I 
> think we should do the update the other way to preserve DITA 1.1 pattern 
> instead of the way Jarno requested that would use a new pattern that's not 
> the same as 1.1.
> TC consensus to make the suggested change.
> ACTION: Robert to either update the topic today or add Review #4 comment if 
> unable to update the topic by EOB today. 
> CLOSED.

6. ITEM: Link text and key references 
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201004/msg00000.html (Nitchie) 
   * A resurrected discussion that needs closure. Review Chris's suggested 
     text for proposal and approval. 
> Chris N: Topic on keyref discusses elements with @href and elements without
> @href. The case for non-@href is clear. The case for @href is not clear how 
> processors should behave. I think the fallback linktext should be used -- need
> to clarify that the spec says what we mean it to say.
> ACTION: Chris N to suggest wording change for spec and add it to the Wiki 
> review #4 comments.
> Revisit next week.

7. New ITEM: build Wiki pages for the review? 
   * Stan previously volunteered; confirm that he can do it this week. 
> Covered in item above.
> CLOSED per Kristen's comment above.

8. New ITEM: Disposition of Task comment "DO WHAT?" 
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201003/msg00087.html (Sirois and Hackos) 
> JH: In the task description there is a cross reference to Robert's description
> of how to handle the migration issues of previous specializations ("migrating 
> dita 1.1 to 1.2).
> Robert: This item is done. The comments will be added to the draft 4 Wiki. 
> CLOSED.

9. New ITEM: Base vs. non-base 
   * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201003/msg00092.html (Hamilton) 
> Dick: Base in spec (e.g. <title>) content model includes elements in non-base
> domains (eg. <apiname>). Package includes the "base" directory, but is missing
> the topic and map shell DTDs. Same issue with XSDs.
> ACTION: Robert and Eric to create the required base shells.
> Kristen: We do have a known issue that the base elements in the spec
> documentation have the full content model. The TC agreed in a previous meeting
> to defer handling this documentation issue to the DITA 1.3 spec release.
> The above-mentioned DTD and schema changes must be in place for review #4.


Announcements/Opens 

>Don raised the idea of having a TC meeting at the CMS/DITA 2010 conference. 
> JoAnn to investigate possibilities for folks to participate in a call. 
> The TC will revisit this next week in light of possible business we may or 
> may not have for the meeting that week.


*** Meeting adjourned after 57 minutes ***